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Services

  1. Benefits calculators

    Find out what benefits you could get, how much you could get and how to claim

  2. Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

    Apply for or renew a Blue Badge, amend or cancel a saved application, track your application

  3. Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

    Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - how and when to claim, rates, eligibility

  4. Carer's Allowance

    Apply for Carer's Allowance - money to help you look after someone who needs to be cared for. Apply online or use form DS700

  5. Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

    Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) money if you cannot work because of illness or disability - rates, eligibility, apply, assessment

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment guide for assessment providers
    • Guidance
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  2. Disability Confident: how to sign up to the employer scheme
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  3. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) handbook
    • Guidance
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  4. Start active, stay active: infographics on physical activity
    • Promotional
    • Department of Health and Social Care
  5. VAT relief on certain goods if you have a disability
    • Detailed guide
    • HM Revenue & Customs
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News and communications

News story

'Purple Tuesday' is the UK's first accessible shopping day

Department for Work and Pensions and Office for Disability Issues

  1. New support launched for disabled adults to improve health
    • Public Health England
    • News story
  2. UK hosts event on inclusive evidence in Pakistan
    • World news story
  3. Consultation announced to improve learning disabilities staff training
    • Department of Health and Social Care
    • News story
  4. Call for tourism industry to do more to cater for disabled people
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Disability Confident: survey of participating employers
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Research
  2. Access to Work research review
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Research
  3. Everybody active, every day: framework for physical activity
    • Public Health England
    • Research
  4. People with Learning Disabilities in England 2015
    • Public Health England
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Carers action plan 2018 to 2020
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health and Social Care, Government Equalities Office , and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Policy paper
  2. Government response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme 2nd annual report
    • Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England
    • Policy paper
  3. Think Autism strategy: governance refresh 2018
    • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Policy paper
  4. Global Disability Summit - Charter for Change
    • Department for International Development
    • Policy paper
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Organisations

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